
Directing
Hossam El Dine Mostafa
Born 1926-05-05 · Egypt
Hossam El Din Mostafa, one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, was born in Port Said. With the early 50s, he aspired to travel to the United States to study film directing, and was fortunate when he stood as an executive director for international director Cecil Demel in the movie The Ten Commandments in 1956. He directed 100 films from 1956 to 1994. He's best known for The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket, The Black Glasses, The Enemy Brothers and The Kings of Evil. He also directed TV series including The Knights, Imam Abu Hanifa al-Numan, Heroes and Eagle of the East. He passed away in 2000 at the age of 74, leaving a rich account of important films and purposeful dramas.
Acting credits
5.1Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Alexandria Again and Forever
1989
NRAfter Ismail’s father Ismail is killed, and his mother marries the owner of the company that his dead father worked for, Ahmed turns away to get to know Rouhia, marry her, and live in peace, until the imprisoned Rouhia’s father escapes, to cause a series of surprises.
Serr el hareba
1963
7.0A rich young man named Ahmed falls in love with a poor girl called Farida, but he does not know that she is poor. To make a plan to present it to his family by hiring a group of compars to reunite the personalities of the wealthy unique family.
Chakawet rejala
1966
Behind the camera
NREbn Al-Shaitan (Son of the Devil) a disguised serial killer who target men who leave their wives and kids and remarry.
Ebn Al-Shaitan
1969
5.7The encounters and relationships that a brothel hotel witnessed, from a well known man in power, ambitious cunning youngster, to chivalrous college professor, despite such corrupt business ,true love found a place in some hearts.
Alley of Love
1983
7.3A young man working in Alexandria marries his beautiful sweetheart, which is desired by a senior official in the Socialist Union uses his influence to get the husband unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to 25 years. And then comes out to avenge those who imprisoned him.
El Zalem Wel Mazloom
1989
7.0Saadawi, Fattouh and Azab, prisoners in Abu Zaabal prison after serving their sentence, decide to repent of a life of crime, and after they get out of prison, they find themselves in a confrontation with teacher Abdul Razek, who refuses to restore the rights to Azab.
The Three Devils
1964
9.0Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older sister Sawsan, and that sister despite her beauty and attractiveness, no one has presented her to her. .
Bufakkar filli nassini
1959
9.0Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older sister Sawsan, and that sister despite her beauty and attractiveness, no one has presented her to her. .
Bufakkar filli nassini
1959
5.0Gasser, who works in one of the quarries, goes to the prostitute Hamida who falls in love with him. Metwally, who works with Gasser in the quarry, loves her, which leads the two men onto a dangerous path.
A Woman and a Man
1971
5.5A high school teacher volunteers to transform five notorious misfits into model students and has unintended results.
The School of Mischief
1973
7.0Hafez takes advantage of his presidency of the Childhood Protection Association and his knowledge of the rich families, to cover up his criminal activity in which he kidnaps the children of these families in exchange for ransom.
A Hero Till the End
1963
NRA juvenile reform prison hires a psychologist, Dr. Essmat, to help in the reformation and rehabilitation of the girls in the prison. As he studies their cases and tries to find solutions for their problems, the compassionate Dr. Essmat is confronted with the numerous problems that led the girls to be imprisoned. When one of the girls claims that he raped her he finds himself in trouble with the prison administration, but when she reveals the truth the girls take a different view towards Dr. Essmat and try to help him achieve his goals in reforming them.
The Victims
1975
5.0The events take place in Wikalet El-Balah, where Master Nehmatullah takes controls of the trade in the region by getting rid of her competitors. She marries the poor young Abdullah and makes him in charge of everything which turns the events upside down.
Wikalet El-Balah Market
1982
3.0An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.
Sonya and the Madman
1977
NRThe story revolves around a national political association in the 1940s, joined by a group of national youth, who see violence as one of the most important means of overthrowing the regime.
The Devils
1977
NRThe widow, Wafiya, is surprised that she has to pay a sum of money to the bank to pay off her husband's debt. Adham proposes to her daughter Farha in exchange for paying the sum, and she agrees. They agree to keep their marriage a secret. Adham dies and his father, Mahmoud, and Saeed are surprised by his marriage. The lawyer waits until Farha gives birth to determine the division of the inheritance. The brothers agree with the midwife to strangle the newborn in exchange for giving her a sum of money.
El-Mulk Lellah
1990
NRAhmed attends college while his friend Ramzi inherits a great legacy after the death of his father and sows his money because of his mother's pampering, while the third friend Fathi lives with his mother after her divorce from his father, the great lawyer, and the three friends spend all their time in fun and fun. Ramzi hits a man with his car while he and his friends are drunk. Ahmed takes advantage of this incident by extorting money from Ramzi. Ahmed and Fathi get to know this girl who is overburdened by her demands, events escalate and the three friends decide to go their extravagant distance.
The Three Troublemakers
1962
NRAhmed attends college while his friend Ramzi inherits a great legacy after the death of his father and sows his money because of his mother's pampering, while the third friend Fathi lives with his mother after her divorce from his father, the great lawyer, and the three friends spend all their time in fun and fun. Ramzi hits a man with his car while he and his friends are drunk. Ahmed takes advantage of this incident by extorting money from Ramzi. Ahmed and Fathi get to know this girl who is overburdened by her demands, events escalate and the three friends decide to go their extravagant distance.
The Three Troublemakers
1962
6.0It tells stories of webs of drug dealing, rivalry, revenge and murder among the residents of al batneyya, a place so corrupt and well bonded among each other, even the police struggles with it.
Al-Batniyya
1980
7.0An adventure of money, love and betrayal in the deserts of Egypt at the site of El Alamein battle of WWII. Great locations and photography and non stop action, one of the best Egyptian thrillers. Three smugglers in their way back from the boarders after a successful operation but greed takes over and one of the three is killed, the last two must work together but they can never trust each other again, one steals the money but he discovers it's counterfeit and now they have to find the dead partner's daughter to retrieve the real money, a new friend of the girl join the adventure after helping her dying father and learned about the money where about the four go deep in a WWII landmines area to reach the hidden stash; fighting against the desert sun, storms, outlaws, thirst and above all each other as schemes of love and betrayal continues.
The Bad Guys
1970
7.0An adventure of money, love and betrayal in the deserts of Egypt at the site of El Alamein battle of WWII. Great locations and photography and non stop action, one of the best Egyptian thrillers. Three smugglers in their way back from the boarders after a successful operation but greed takes over and one of the three is killed, the last two must work together but they can never trust each other again, one steals the money but he discovers it's counterfeit and now they have to find the dead partner's daughter to retrieve the real money, a new friend of the girl join the adventure after helping her dying father and learned about the money where about the four go deep in a WWII landmines area to reach the hidden stash; fighting against the desert sun, storms, outlaws, thirst and above all each other as schemes of love and betrayal continues.
The Bad Guys
1970
NRAbdullah is a judge who asks court guard Farghali to bring him a maid, he goes to the poor Shohrat who needs money for her children and her addict husband . She has an affair with the judge who gives her money. But when he decides to refrain from paying her, she leaves and he looks for her everywhere.
The City's Lost Souls
1974
9.3Four thieves robbed a house and stole his wealth and killed the owner of the house, his wife and daughter and set fire to the house, but (Ahmed) was hiding under the bed watching criminals, Ahmad grows up and becomes a club karate champion, and after he knows that (Saber) who was wrongfully accused of the crime He got out of prison, deciding to take revenge on his family's killers.
Al Abtaal
1974
10.0The story of the Arabic Robin Hood, the legendary local hero Adham Al-Sharqawi who persisted in resisting the British occupation for years and tried to alleviate the suffering of the people of his village.
Adham Al-Sharqawi
1964
NRa TV movie based on an Agatha Christie's novel
Victims Hotel
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9.0The two friends, Shukri and Sami start a rivalry to win the heart of the beautiful nurse Samira, who is in love with Shukri. They start doing pranks to each other and events continue.
Naughty Girl
1967